Be advised that your local office of Primary Care Support (PCS) Services will no longer be able to complete and submit the Disclosure and Barring Service Checks forms on behalf of applicants to the Performer List.

Applicants seeking to join the Performer List will be required to complete and submit these forms themselves and can use any one of the umbrella bodies recommended by the Home Office for supporting applicants with their DBS application. These umbrella bodies can be found at https://dbs-ub-directory.homeoffice.gov.uk/

PCS Services is subject to a national procurement exercise and an external provider will be announced later this year who will deliver its services under a new national contract. The work of submitting DBS forms on behalf of Performer List applicants, which some PCS Services offices have undertaken, is not included in the terms of the contract that is now being procured.

Your local office of PCS Services will therefore discontinue providing this service to Provider List applicants from 1 June 2015. Any applications received at this office on or before 31 May will not be affected by change. After this date, either the applicant or the practice will be required to return their DBS forms themselves. Once the relevant DBS certificate is received by PCS Services, along with the other paperwork, the application to be included on the Performer List will be processed as usual.